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*********Don't Forget*********
Tavistock's
Annual Meeting on March 28, 2012 |
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All Tavistock homeowners and their families are
invited to attend the Tavistock Civic Association's Annual Meeting on
Wednesday, March 28th at 7:00PM at the Talleyville
Fire Station Hall. We have invited our key
legislative representatives to attend the meeting as
well as our community police officer to give us
short summaries of what has been happening in our
neighborhood and beyond. The meeting will last about
1 hour after which we'll open the floor to have
informal discussions with our legislators over coffee, tea
and cookies. |
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2012-2013 Tavistock Directory
Now Available
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Tracey Mulveny, finished working on our
directory and copies are being delivered in
mailboxes over the next few weeks as weather and
time permits.
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Copies will also be available at the Annual Meeting. |
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New
Castle County's
'Meet Your County Government' night is Feb. 29
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The New Castle County
Executive's Office will hold a "Meet Your County
Government" night from 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. 29 at the
James H. Gilliam Building's Multipurpose Room, 77
Read's Way, New Castle Corporate Commons. County
Executive Paul Clark and representatives from county
departments will be on hand to answer residents'
questions and share information about county
services. "This is a great opportunity for residents
to get a better understanding of how county
government works and what their tax dollars pay
for," Clark said. Call 395-5101 for more
information.
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Delaware Tech Offers Tour of Their New Training
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Delaware Tech is appealing to all men and
women of every age who are trying to get a job or
trying to move up in a job.
Their mission is
to support Delaware's economic develop-ment efforts
by designing and delivering training programs that
meet the needs of local businesses and the state's
workforce.
They are offering to host
interested civic leaders a tour of this modern
technical training center. Everyone that comes here
is amazed, but most people don't even know they are
in this new location! Here in Churchman's Center is
their recently renovated state-of-the-art training
center located at 97 Parkway Circle, New Castle, DE
19720. Six modern classrooms, six modern labs, plus
an ample outdoor training area too.
This
semester nearly 500 trainees are learning new
technical skills up to and including certifications
in Electrical Maintenance, HVAC Maintenance, Welding
Mainte-nance, Weatherization and/or a variety of
OSHA and Asbestos Safety instruction.
Very
soon they will be recruiting trainees for their new
Energy Efficient Manufacturing and Facility
Maintenance Program.
Do you have a friend or
relative that needs to know about this training
center and what is offered? For further information
or to register, please contact
Shirley Linde at
the DT Innovation & Tech Center,
302-327-7300
slinde@dtcc.edu |
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Stormwater Alternative Being Proposed for Columbia
Place & BCSP |
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If you were to take a look at the Garden of
Eden Road entrance to Brandywine Creek State Park
(BCSP), there is a stormwater stream that begins at
the edge of the forest which looks very much like
the photo above with erosion on both sides of the
stream.
The developer of the proposed
Columbia Place project, Jerry Heissler, has
suggested that he would like to move the stormwater
retention pond from his property to the State Park,
so he requested a meeting with representatives
from NCC Dept. of Land Use, DNREC/DPR and
DNREC/Sediment & Stormwater Program to discuss
possible alternative stormwater manage-ment
strategies for the project. That meeting was
conducted at the NCC Administrative Office on
February 16th.
The purpose of the meeting
was to determine whether the review agencies would
consider some sort of mitigation project in-lieu of
providing on-site stormwater quantity management.
It should be pointed out that a design has already
been prepared for on-site management that fully
complies with the current Delaware Sediment
& Stormwater Regula-tions. However, the developer
is aware that there are existing problems at one of
the locations where stormwater runoff from this
site, as well as others, discharge into BCSP. though
the alternatives at the time were either too costly
or weren’t in keeping with the natural setting of
the BCSP.
However, since that time, there
have been some encouraging results with a new
practice referred to as a Regenera-tive Stormwater
Conveyance Sys-tem (RSCS). Please see
attached document. This practice was developed
in Anne Arundel County, MD, for exactly the
conditions that exist at the pipe outfall into BCSP.
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Helping Families Manage
(Public Service Announcement) |
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My name is Jackie Corsini and
I live in Edenridge III on Kilburn Rd.
I am a mother of four
children, my youngest 16 yrs old, and I have been
thinking about starting a mothers' day out from my
home on Mondays.
I work at Winterthur
Museum in the School Programs Department and the
Museum is closed on Mondays which is why I picked
this day.
When my two older children were toddlers I
brought them to a woman in my neighborhood who
babysat from 9:00AM until 1:00PM one day a week.
I always loved it
because if I had a doctor's appointment, needed to
go shopping, meet a friend for adult conversation,
or just wanted to clean my house, it gave me enough
time to actually get things done and they loved
playing with the other children.
You can choose to do
it every week or on an as needed basis.
I would like to have
a story time, sing songs, play games and give them
lunch. If it is nice out, I would take nature
walks. I do miss doing all these things with my own
children, so this is a way for me to have fun too:).
Please let me know if
there is any interest. You can pass this on to
others if you think they would be interested.
For further information, please contact me at:
Jackiecorsini@mac.com or
302-477-1422
Thank you,
Jackie
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Noise |
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Delaware has noise
ordinances that require consideration by everyone. For
example, one of the paragraphs which applies to all of us is
under "Domestic Power Tools--0perating or permitting the
operation of any mechanically
powered saw, drill, sander, grinder, lawn or
garden tool, snow blower, or similar device in
residential areas between the hours of 10:00
p.m. and 7:00 a.m. so as to cause a noise
disturbance within a Class A receiving property"
is prohibited. Further information may be found
here.
As a courtesy to all your
neighbors, we recommend that lawnmowers,
snow blowers, or other outdoor power tools not be
operated before 9:00a.m. or after 7:00 p.m.
since we have many young children in our
neighborhood who go to bed early. |
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Heard Through the Grapevine |
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One of the common questions that come up in Tavistock is,
"What's happening with or to the Pilot School property?" We
know that the school was having problems getting mortgage
loans from the banks, but the latest unconfirmed news is
that the school expects to break ground at their new
location off Woodlawn Road in the spring of 2013. Once the
new school is built and the move is made, demolition and
construction at the current site can begin, presumably,
sometime in 2014. However, Garden of Eden Road will become
busier when the Quality Inn Motel is demolished reportedly
this spring to make room for a new 6-pump Wa-Wa convenience
store and gas station. The impact on Tavistock remains to be
seen, but we suspect that traffic will pick up once the
Wa-Wa store is functioning and homeowners will need to
decide what to do about it. |
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Stormwater Alternative... |
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DNREC has recommended this practice as a possible
alternative to on-site quantity management with the
condition that an analysis be prepared to ensure there are
no adverse impacts to the system through the point that the
discharge enters Brandywine Creek. In essence, what is
being proposed is exactly what the revised Sediment
& Stormwater Regulations hope to accomplish. Although
quantity management can be met on-site for this project, it
would not solve the larger watershed problem downstream.
Mr. Heissler has given the State of Delaware an opportunity
to use private funding to solve a problem on public lands
that would otherwise continue to degrade. In this case, the
developer is willing to use the money he would have spent
for an on-site solution and apply it to an off-site solution
that achieves greater benefit from a watershed protection
perspective. It appears to be a win-win situation since the
State can correct this problem without investing a great
deal of money and at the same time Mr. Heissler would have
fuller use of his property to either create more open space
or reconfigure the lots within the property without adding
any more units. |
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Redesigned stormwater channel leading to smaller retention
ponds eventually flowing into Brandywine Creek. |
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